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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1960)
Section Two Eight Pages i "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 80—Number 26 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 20, 1960 Seven Cents MEET THE TEAM That Works to Bring You The FRONTIER Each Week DURING NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK WE PAUSE TO SAY "THANK YOU" TO ALL OUR READERS, we Hay thank* for your Interest In the Frontier as evidenced l>y our continually growing list of subscriber*. And we thank you for your letters, compliments and complaints that help us produce a better news paper. 3,300 copies of the Frontier are sold weekly as evidence of your interest. TO Ot It PRINTING CUSTOMERS we say thanks for your growing patron age that has enabled us to expand this department. TO OUR ADVERTISERS our thanks for allowing us to aid you in building a greater business for you. Good newspapers and good business go hand in hand. a TO ALL OTHERS who assist us each year by bringing in pictures, stories, news tips and help us bring the news of North-Central Nebraska to our readers each week we say thank you. 36 People Work On Each Issue Of The Frontier To say that 36 people are direct ly involved in getting out your Frontier each week sounds im pressive until you think it over and conclude that that figure isn’t nearly high enough. It actually should be up in the hundreds maybe a thousand. For the “36” includes only those employed in the office and the regular correspondents. It does not take into consideration the many "volunteer” reporters who contribute to the news co lums or the employees of the 34 postoffices in Holt and ad joining counties from which pa pers are mailed each week. All weekly newspapers depend upon the helpful people who tele phone or mail news to the paper the secretaries, historians and publicity chairmen of all kinds of clubs and organizations. And just plain folks who tell us what they and their neighbors are do ing. And don’t forget the advertiser! Advertising is news too—news of where you can buy what you want at the right prices right here in your hometown. The businessman who does his advertising in his hometown newspaper helps make it a better paper and at the same time he helps make his own store a better one and his town a bet ter place to shop. But the brunt of the task of getting all the new-s and adver tising assembled and into print each week falls upon the 36 who work at It regularly and they must do it ahead of deadlines and under pressure. It’s like the baseball umpire who was asked, “Is it a ball or strike?” His answer was: Until 1‘ublisher Kill Richardson, a newcomer to the Frontier, works so he can hunt and fish. His first contact with working journalism was In North Africa during World War II where he helped publish a battalion newspaper . , . and he has been in the journalism field since the close of the war. The worried look is perpetual and not necessarily an indication of Ills feelings. He expects to move his wife and two children from Wayne to their new residence at Tenth and Hancock about October 28. i Mrs. Clarence Sauser, "Gen” to her friends, has the task of keep ing the books for the Frontier. Besides her talent for keeping books straight she also keeps us straight on names of families throughout the O'Neill area- Gen, a member of the Frontier staff for the past 10 years has a son, Don ald living in California and a daughter, Mrs. Sylvester (Mar garet) Venteieher of Norfolk and 11 grandchildren who provide her a hobby. i cau 11, 11 am i auuuug. nuu until an event is published in the newspapers where everbody car read about it, “it ain’t news. Working behind the scenes, bat nevertheless the backbone of the weekly newspaper are the regular correspondents. Here is the names of the per sons who are regular writers for The Frontier. Chambers, Mrs. E. R. Carpen ter; Ewing, Mrs. H. R. Harris; Amelia, Miss Florence Lindsey; Inman, Mrs. James McMahan; Riverside, Mrs. Lionel Gunter; Doloit, Mrs. Henry Reimer; Ven us, Mrs. Ralph Brookhouser; At kinson, Mrs. Ma-ion Roberts: Page, Mrs. Ben Asher. Lynch and Redibird, Miss Vel deen Pinkerman; Dorsey, Mrs Harold Osoorn, Rock Falls, Mrs Floyd Johnson: Meek community Mrs. Fred Lindberg; Stuart, Mrs Herb Skala; Newport, Mrs. Oli ver Gilg; Naper, Mrs. John Schonebaum; Spencer, Mrs. Rose Hornback. Ft. Randall, Miss Janice Kir wan; Emmet, M's. Ernie Klcp penborg; Orchard, Mrs. Wilbur Mahood; Royal, Mrs. R. J. Her ing; Verdigre, Vac Randa; Mon, owi, Mrs. Mike Piklapp; Clear water, Mrs. Charles Curtright; Rosedale, Miss Carol Mahlen dorf. Welcome Visitors! Visitors, lots of them each year, come to our newspaper manufacturing plant to see how the newspaper is produced. School classes, clubs, organizations, etc. generally find the trip very in teresting. The Frontier is always happy to have these groups tour our plant and we extend an invita tion to those who have not al ready seen nur plant to stop in soon and visit us. It is requested that larger groups make arrangements for the tour before coming to the plant. Mike Champion who operates one of the Frontier's two Lino type machines, has been with the Frontier for the past year. Mike Ls a graduate of Denison high school, served two years In the Marine Corps and Is a graduate of the University of Iowa linotype school. Mikes favorite pastimes are hunting und fishing and he is an “expert” on football and baseball. Mrs. N. D. Ickes, former Page correspondent and feature writer for the Frontier for the past eight years lives with her husband and son, Dennis, a Page high school senior on their farm home lVi miles west of Page on the Page Inman road. Mrs. Ickes still writes some Page news but also writes many of the local items appearing in the Frontier each week as well as special assignment feature stories. Mr. and Mrs. Ickes are the parents of four sons and four daughters and have 21 grandchild ren. Mrti. Kay Witherwax, Is the all around “handyman" In the Frontier office. She takes care of subscriptions, helps out on the bookkeeping, reads proof and is an expert at making photo engravings on the Frontier’s Scan-A-G raver. < 'lanuina is a graduate of the Lynch high school and has been a member of the Frontier staff for the past year. This is Komaine Saunders, author of the Frontier’s “Prairieland Talk" column. Mr. Saunders, nearing his ninetieth birthday, has been associated with the Frontier off and on for most of its lifetime ... as printer’s devil, printer and editor. Long since retired, he lives with his daughter in Lincoln where he writes his weekly column. 11 EMPLOYEES Yes, the Frontier ranks high on the list of Holt County’s leading firms—In payroll. In Investment, in service and interest of the large area we serve in North Central Nebraska. RonuUae m:* . \ Bruce Rehberg, editor of the Frontier, hits a multitude of duties too numerous to list in this space. A native of Royal, Bruce attended the University of Nebraska and Wayne State Teachers college. He was employed by a commercial photo studio in Lincoln and served on the staff of the Wayne Herald before coming to O’Neill. Bruce was also a Frontier staff member from 1953-57. Bruce and his wife, ' Nancy have two children, Kurt, two and Rebecca, one. Mrs. Reed Herley has a wide range of duties, foremost of which is society editor of the Frontier. Each wedding story, engagement announcement and club note which appears in the Frontier is given her personal attention before it ap pears in print. Mrs. Herley also writes feature and human interest stories plus filling in on news as signments whenever the need arises. She has two daughters, Christine and Sally. A *35,000 PAYROLL A GROWING LOCAL INDUSTRY The Frontier is an industry within itself. As mans* faeturers with trained know-how we convert raw materials, ton after ton of paper, ink metal and electric power into a finished product for your information and enjoyment. Della Eriksen has spent a good many years in printing offices and though she is now taking life easier, she still has printers Ink In her blood. Della works several days a week at the Frontier help ing with commercial printing as well as with the paper. 25 AREA NEWSWRITERS Here’s Marvin Ztaka, mechanical foreman for the Frontier. He’s pictured here com ironing one of the many type forms he puts together for each week’s issue of the paper. A printer with eight years experience behind him, Marvin can step Into any department of the “back shop’’ when help is needed. Before joining the Frontier Marvin worked on newspapers at Valentine and Wayne. Marvin is married nnd he and Ids wife, Blanche, have three children, Beverly, six, Doreen, five nnd Danny, two. ■ James Janldewicz has been working for the past year as a Linotype operator on the Frontier staff. Jim Is a graduate of the Verdigre high school, attended eollege at South Dakota Stab* College at llrooklngs and has served four years with the U. 8. Air Force. James is married and he and his wife, Uuth, have two children, Jimmy, age five and Lynn Marie, three. Every newspaper has a “printers devil” and Eddie Ennen fills that job. Eddie, a sophomore in high school, works Saturdays and af ter school. Eddie’s duties include casting mats, pouring lead pigs to feed the line-casting machines, throwing in the type after the new-paper is printed and cleaning up the shop. Eddie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ennen. Day In and day out the Frontier Is continually striving io build a better community and to help finance progrem. Its 838,000 annual payroll remains entirely at home.